Magazine-firearm.



.1. LjcoPPms & a. u. TREECE. MAGAZINE FIREARM.

(Application filed May 26, 1900..)

(No Model.

' Patented Sept. l8, I900.

NHED Sterne hernias? trier-3..

JAMES LLOYD OOPPING AND GEORGE DYSON CIREECE, OF LONDON,

ENGLAND.

hdAGAZ!l SE-FlREARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,918, datedSeptember 18, 1900. Application filed May 26, 1900. Serial No. 18,145.(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, JAMES LLOYD Cor- PING and GEORGE DYSON Tanner,subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Dashwood House, NewBroad street, London, England, have invented new and useful Improvementsin Breech-Loading Small-Arms, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates tobreech-loading small-arms of the kind whereinthe cartridges are fed into the breech-chamber from a magazine, theinvention being applicable to firearms wherein the several operations ofthe gun are automatically efiected by the recoil or performed by hand.

The object of the said invention is to provide means whereby thecartridge-holder, which is inserted into the magazine or which forms themagazine, shall be automatically ejected from the gun directly the lastcartridge is delivered from the same into the breech and, if desired, toarrange means whereby the number of cartridges which the magazinecontains shall be indicated.

In the accompanying drawings we have shown a suitable arrangement forcarrying out the invention In the said drawings, Figure 1 is a sectionalside elevation of a magazinepistol having the improvements appliedthereto. Figs. 2 and 3 are a sectional plan and a side elevation of adetail; and Fig. a is a sectional side elevation thereof, drawn to alarger scale.

a is the barrel of the pistol, b the frame carrying the same, and c thehandle or grip, which is made hollow to take the cartridgemagazine d inthe usual manner.

e is the breech bolt or block, and f the trigger, of the pistol.

In connection with the aperture through which the cartridges 9 g passfrom the magazine (Z to the breech-chamber is an arm h, pivoted upon aspindle or pin 1., mounted in the frame I) and carrying a ratchet-wheeli, the said-arm it being provided with a springpawl h arranged to engagewith the teeth of the said ratchet-wheel The free end of the armnormally projects into the path of the cartridges g g in such a mannerthat as each cartridge is moved past the same it impinges upon the armand causes it to oscillate, so that through the medium of the pawl 71 acertain amount of rotation is imparted to the ratchet-wheel i, as shownclearly in Fig. i.

h is a spring which returns the arm h into the path of the cartridgesafter each movement, and h is a detent for preventing the ratchet-wheelt turning back after it has been set forward and for rotating the saidwheel when a new magazine is inserted, as hereinafter described.

The cartridge holder or magazine (1 is held in position in the grip c bya bolt or the like j, which is normally held in engagement with a notchor slot (1' in the magazine by a spring it. Now to withdraw the boltwhen the magazine is empty we provide,in connection with theratchet-wheel, a cam Z, which rotates intermittently with the saidratchet-wheel and when the latter has completed'arevolution.

impinges against one end of a lever m, which is pivoted at m to theframe 7), and the other. end of which engages in a slotj' in the boltjin such a manner as to withdraw the bolt from the notch 01' against theaction of the spring 70, so that the magazine is released and left freeto fall out under the action of gravity or to be forced out either bythe springn, which pushes the cartridges into the breech-chamber, orbythe special spring n, which is put into tension when the magazine isinserted into the grip, the said spring being secured at one end to thefixed pin n and at the other. end to the slide n carrying a projection12;, against which the top of the magazine bears when pushed into thegrip so as to stretch the spring.

To indicate the number of cartridges which remain in the weapon, wearrange upon the spindle h, carrying the ratchet wheel, a pointer 0outside the frame I), the said pointer moving in front of a dial fittedin the frame and numbered in such a manner that as the pointer movesforward with the ratchet-wheel as each cartridge is delivered into thebreechchamber it stops opposite a figure upon the dial, indicatingthenumber of cartridges re-- maining in the'weapon. In the pistol shown inthe drawings the dial is numbered to correspond to a magazine capable ofholding eeaeis seven cartridges, and the bolt j, which re tains themagazine (Z in the. gun, is so arranged in relation to the ratchet-wheelr1 that the magazine d will be ejected immediately the last cartridge isfed into the breech'chamher and before it is fired, this arrangementbeing of especial advantage in firearms which. operaie under the actionof the recoil, the discharge of the magazine indicating to the personusing the firearm that one cartridge only remains, whereby ifafreshly-charged holder or magazine is inserted into the gun before thelast cartridge is fired it Will not be necessary to insert the firstcartridge from the recharged magazine into the barrel. by operating thebreech-bolt by hand, as is sometimes the case when the last cartridge isdischarged before a freshly-charged magazine is inserted. To enable thepointer to he moved from the numeral 1 to the numeral 7 when a freshcartridge-holder is inserted, the above-named detent is secured to theslide a so that it drops with the said slide when the emptied holder isejected and is pushed up by. the insertion of the fresh holder, thusrotating the ratchet wheel 7 through a distance equal to the length ofone tooth.

Although we have described and shown an arrangement wherein themechanism for releasing the magazine is actuated by the movement of thecartridges, it will be obvious that the said mechanism can also beoperated from any other suitable intermittensly-moving part of thepistol.

' Having now particularly described and. as-

certained the natureof our said invention and in what manner the same isto he performed, we declare that what we claim is 1. In breech-loadingsmall-arms the combination with the cartridge-magazine, of means wherebythe said magazine is automatically ejected when the last cartridge hasbeen fed from the maeazino snbstantiall. as hereinheifers described.

2. in breech-loading small-arms the coznhi:

nation with the magazine, of a spring-bolt engaging a slot or notch inthe magazine so as to hold it in position, and of means for Withdrawing;the bolt out of engagement with the magazine when the last cartridge hasleft the magazine, substantially as scribed.

in breech-loading smalharms the combination with the magazine, of aspring-bolt normally engaging a slot or notch in the 5. Inbreech-loading" small-arms the comhi-' nation with the magazine, of apointer and a dial, of a ratchet-wheel in connection with the pointer,and of a pawl for actuating the ratchet-wheel, the said pawl beingmounted upon an arm which normally extends into the path of thecartridges so as to be intermittently operated thereby substantially as,and for the purpose, hereinbefore described.

- JAMES LLOYD COPPING.

GEORGE DYSON TREECE. Witnesses:

JOHN E. BOUsFIELD, O. f. REDFERN.

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